Stick Marsh-Farm 13 Fishing Reports

Fall arriving at the Marsh - As we enter strongly into the fall season we find the bass moving southward towards the wooded areas of Farm 13. However, it is too early to totally give up on the old irrigation ditches and their intersections. Our rainy season is coming to a cl more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Sometimes the lake wins - My last trip on the Marsh proved to be a difficult on. With winds out of the NE at about 15 MPH and the direction of route traveled things were tough for us. Only 10 bass made it to the boat. With the wind blowing the one good thing is temperatures w more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Farm 13 on a warm September day - What started as a very slow day ended up in a not-so-bad manner. This morning Tim Wong from San Francisco and myself left the ramp under a full moon, anticipating a hot bite at one of the local hot spots. It was not to be however as the current that more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Stick Marsh/Farm 13 and Ansin/Garcia - Submitted 9/14/08 Went out yesterday to see just how well the spillway was producing. Parties that had fished it Friday were there regaling us with tales of wonder of the numbers and size of the bass caught on Friday. Having fished these cond more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Stick Marsh/Farm 13 with Kevin: - Submitted by: Kevin Swede Oleen - 9/8/08 Florida's famous Stick Marsh and Mr. George Welcome summoned me to prepare my gear and depart Tampa eastbound at O dark thirty yesterday morning. George and I agreed to meet up at about 6:30am - so I lef more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Fishing is hot - Lots of rain from TS Fay has changed the landscape quite a bit on the lake. Inflow waters are tremendous in quantity, however the spillway area is a mess of incoming weeds. Weeds are spread over much of the Farm as the current disburses in about the more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Summer fun and rain - Based on the summer fishing and the rainfall of this year we are expecting a very good 2008-2009 season. Rainfall has been at the level that spillway openings have been required to facilitate the movement of water northward through the St Johns tribu more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Summer fishing is great - The statement that I hear most often as we start our way across the Stick Marsh is, wow, I thought this was a much smaller lake. As we round the point of the separation levy they get the full impact as all 11 square miles is in view. Where do we s more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Spring closeout - I have been away for a couple of weeks in May so I missed some really good fishing. The days I was out yielded some very impressive catches with most fish coming from the south end of Farm 13. Bait of choice was still the Swimming Senko in dark c more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Great fishing is the order of the day - As many of my days off start, 4/18/08 was no exception. I had the boat ready before daylight, made a call to Don Willis, and agreed to meet Don at Ansin/Garcia. Five minutes into the drive I called Don again and after a short chat it was decided that more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13